Monumentum
Tauroctony relief with Cautopates from Mithraeum III, Ptuj
Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.
Tauroctony relief with Cautopates from Mithraeum III, PtujCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1679 ↔ CIMRM 1600
Marble relief. Inv. No. 321. See fig. 410.
Abramić, Führer, 188 No. 248 and fig. 130; Ferri, Arte Dan., 199 fig. 215.
Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual dress and attitude. The head, the greater part of the flying cloak and his r. foot are lost. Of the bull only the head and the knee of the r. foreleg are preserved. Behind him standing Cautopates to the right touching the ground with the torch; not cross-legged. In the l. upper corner the dressed bust of Sol in radiate crown, two rays darting towards Mithras. Next to him the raven on the grotto's border. In the r. upper corner the dressed bust of Luna in crescent.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
